The Preview Mailing feature allows you to see what the content will look like for random recipients, or for the email address you specify. Preview mailing can show you how mail merge, conditional content and scripting will appear for specific recipients.
Preview Mailing is a button that appears at the bottom of the Mailing: New Mailing: Message tab. It is also available for mailings pending administrator approval (Mailing: Approval: Edit Mailing Needing Approval) and Mailings: Edit Scheduled Mailing.
Member
Preview Mailing displays the message for the email address here. By default, your email address (the address of the administrator logged into ListManager) will be displayed here. Click View Random to view the mailing for a random recipient of the mailing. Or, enter the email address of a member you would like to preview and click View.
If the address entered is not a recipient of the mailing, ListManager will warn you and display the mailing without merging in custom content for that address.
Note: Preview Mailing should not be used to test whether the specified address will receive the mailing. When previewing a mailing, ListManager does not check if the specified address will be purged due to recency limits, or because they're on a suppression list or a recipient of a mailing that has been purged from receiving this mailing.
Header
The From:, To: and Subject fields of the header, with all content merged for this recipient.
Text Message
The text portion of the mailing, with all content merged for this recipient.
HTML Message
The HTML portion of the mailing, with all content merged for this recipient. At the bottom of the HTML message, there is a link you may click to view the HTML portion of the message in your web browser.
Go Back
Return to creating or editing this mailing.